To set your custom Look&Feel call the static method <tt>setLnf(lnf)</tt> of the class <tt>LnfManager</tt>. The recommended place to do that is the constructor of the Riena Application (<tt>SwtApplication</tt>):

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To set your custom Look&Feel, call the static method <tt> LnfManager.setLnf(lnf)</tt>. We recommend that you call it in the constructor of the Riena Application (<tt>SwtApplication</tt>):

These methods must be implemented to define the colors, fonts, images and settings for the controls of the navigation.

It is recommend to extent the default theme of Riena, DefaultRienaTheme. All necessary resources and settings are already defined in the default theme. You must only put your own defaults into the tables of the Look&Feel.

The following line e.g. specifies the background color of a sub module:

All existing keys for the Look&Feel you can find in the interface ILnfKeyConstants. It is not possible to add colors from the type org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Color. The colors must be wrapped from an instance of the class ColorLnfResource. This helps the Look&Feel to dispose all resources of the Look&Feel. Also wrappers for fonts and images exist.

Custom Renderer

For nearly every control of the navigation a renderer is used to paint it. This renderers can be replaced by own implementations. To write your own renderer please extent an existing default renderer

To set your own renderer you can use extensions. Therefore Riena provides an extension points: org.eclipse.riena.ui.swt.lnfrenderer

This extension can only have renderer elements. A renderer element has the following three attributes:

Look&Feel Keys

The class org.eclipse.riena.ui.swt.lnf.LnfKeyConstants defines a set of keys for the Look&Feel.
These keys are used to access the color, fonts, images etc. of the Look&Feel.

Shell

The shell of the Riena application can be very different from other RCP applications.
So it is possible to suppress the title bar and border of the operation system.
Therefore the key SHELL_HIDE_OS_BORDER exists.

(Because it is possible to hide the title bar and border, all the other L&F keys for the Riena shell starts with TITLELESS_SHELL_.)

Sub-Application Switcher

The Riena application consists of one or more sub-applications. Only one sub-application can be active.
To switch between sub-applications you can use Sub-Application Switcher in the top of the application window.

With the key SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_HORIZONTAL_TAB_POSITION the position of the switcher can be defined. Three values are valid: SWT.LEFT, SWT.CENTER, SWT RIGHT.

Before the text of every switcher an icon can be displayed. To turn the option on use the key SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_TAB_SHOW_ICON with the value "true".

The image above has some strange colors. This colors are used to highlight the gradients.

The texts of the sub-applications has the foreground color (L&F key: SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_FOREGROUND).
If the text is disabled the color of the key SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_DISABLED_FOREGROUND is used.

The backgrounds of active and passive switcher have gradients with start and end color:

SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_ACTIVE_BACKGROUND_START_COLOR

SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_ACTIVE_BACKGROUND_END_COLOR

SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_PASSIVE_BACKGROUND_START_COLOR

SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_PASSIVE_BACKGROUND_END_COLOR

SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_PROCESS_FINISHED_BACKGROUND_START_COLOR

SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_PROCESS_FINISHED_BACKGROUND_END_COLOR

The selected (active) tab of the the sub-application switcher has an addition gradient a the top. In the L&F only one color is defined: SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_TOP_SELECTION_COLOR. The renderer of this tab calcutated itself the start and end color.

The border of active and passive tabs define the values of with the L&F keys SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_INNER_BORDER_COLOR (resp. SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_INNER_PROCESS_FINISHED_BORDER_COLOR), SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_BORDER_TOP_RIGHT_COLOR and SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_BORDER_BOTTOM_LEFT_COLOR.

If the tab is disabled than the three keys SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_INNER_DISABLED_BORDER_COLOR, SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_DISABLED_BORDER_TOP_RIGHT_COLOR and
SUB_APPLICATION_SWITCHER_DISABLED_BORDER_BOTTOM_LEFT_COLOR are important.

Menu Bar / Tool Bar

The margin at the top of the menu bar and the tool bar of the Riena application can be defined in the Look&Feel using the following two constants: MENUBAR_TOP_MARGIN and TOOLBAR_TOP_MARGIN

The gap between the bottom of the tool bar and the work area/navigation can be defined with TOOLBAR_WORK_AREA_VERTICAL_GAP.

Navigation

In a Riena application there is always on the left side the navigation view. You can set the width of the navigation in the Look&Feel.

The constant is NAVIGATION_WIDTH.

If you change this width, also the width of the module-groups, module und and sub-module tree will be changed; furthermore the with of the working area will be shrunk or grown

Sub-Module Tree

If a module has more than one sub-module, all sub-modules will be displayed in a tree. This tree is inside the view of the module, below the title bar of the module.

A sub-module can have children. This children are also displayed in the sub-module tree.

You can define in the Look&Feel what icons should be displayed, if a folder is open oree closed. Also you can define the icon of a leaf.

SUB_MODULE_TREE_FOLDER_OPEN_ICON - will be displayed if a folder is open

SUB_MODULE_TREE_FOLDER_CLOSED_ICON - will be displayed if a folder is closed

SUB_MODULE_TREE_DOCUMENT_LEAF_ICON - icon of a leaf (node without children)

Marker

A leaf in the sub-module can be marked. At the moment three markers exist:

ErrorMarker - values of the sub-module are invalid

MandatoryMarker - not all required values of the sub-module are entered

UIProcessFinishedMarker - a process of the sub-module is finished

For these markers icons are displayed in front of the accroding leaf icon of the sub-module tree.

You can define these additional icons with the following constants:

SUB_MODULE_TREE_ERROR_MARKER_ICON

SUB_MODULE_TREE_MANDATORY_MARKER_ICON

SUB_MODULE_TREE_PROCESSED_FINISHED_MARKER_ICON

If it is preferred to have the markers at one place, the following constant can be used to set the global MarkerPosition of markers in a SubModuleTree:

SUB_MODULE_TREE_MARKER_HIERARCHIC_ORDER_POSITION

If this property is set, all markers are sorted according to their priority (getPriority() in IMarker) and only the one with the highest priority is painted at the given MarkerPosition.

Marker influence the painting of controls depending on the marker type. Rendering of the DisabledMarker can be configured by the Look and Feel. The following constants are given:

LnfKeyConstants.DISABLED_MARKER_BACKGROUND [Color] : The background for the disabled state rendering

LnfKeyConstants.DISABLED_MARKER_STANDARD_ALPHA [int] : The Alpha-Value of the disabled state rendering for simple Controls(Buttons, Labels, ...)

LnfKeyConstants.DISABLED_MARKER_COMPLEX_ALPHA [int] : The Alpha-Value of the disabled state rendering for more complex Controls(List, Table, Tree ...)

Dialog

Riena draws an own title bar and border of a dialog, if the setting DIALOG_HIDE_OS_BORDER has the value true.

Title Bar

The picture above shows a dialog with a Riena title bar.

The text of the title bar has the foreground color (L&F key: DIALOG_FOREGROUND).

The background of the title bar is a gradient with start and end color. The keys of the L&F are DIALOG_TITLEBAR_BACKGROUND_START_COLOR and DIALOG_TITLEBAR_BACKGROUND_END_COLOR.

At the top (left) and the bottom (right) of the Riena title bar are three different other colors to simulate a 3D effect:

DIALOG_TITLEBAR_BACKGROUND_TOP_COLOR_1

DIALOG_TITLEBAR_BACKGROUND_TOP_COLOR_2

DIALOG_TITLEBAR_BACKGROUND_TOP_COLOR_3

DIALOG_TITLEBAR_BACKGROUND_BOTTOM_COLOR_1

DIALOG_TITLEBAR_BACKGROUND_BOTTOM_COLOR_2

DIALOG_TITLEBAR_BACKGROUND_BOTTOM_COLOR_3

Border

The the dialog border is a compound of two (one pixel thick) borders. Every border has different colors a the top/left and bottom/right:

DIALOG_BORDER_BOTTOM_RIGHT_COLOR

DIALOG_BORDER_TOP_LEFT_COLOR

DIALOG_INNER_BORDER_BOTTOM_RIGHT_COLOR

DIALOG_INNER_BORDER_TOP_LEFT_COLOR

Buttons

The Riena title bar of a Dialog can have three buttons at the right side and for every button the icon must be defined in the Look&Feel:

Close Button

DIALOG_CLOSE_ICON - standard close icon of a dialog

DIALOG_CLOSE_HOVER_ICON - will be displayed when the mouse pointer is over the close button

DIALOG_CLOSE_HOVER_SELECTED_ICON - will be displayed when the mouse pointer is over the close button and the mouse button is pressed

DIALOG_CLOSE_INACTIVE_ICON - will be displayed if a dialog is disabled

Minimize Button

DIALOG_MIN_ICON - standard minimize icon of a dialog

DIALOG_MIN_HOVER_ICON - will be displayed when the mouse pointer is over the minimize button

DIALOG_MIN_HOVER_SELECTED_ICON - will be displayed when the mouse pointer is over the minimize button and the mouse button is pressed

DIALOG_MIN_INACTIVE_ICON - will be displayed if a dialog is disabled

Maximize/Restore Button

DIALOG_MAX_ICON - standard maximize icon of a dialog

DIALOG_MAX_HOVER_ICON - will be displayed when the mouse pointer is over the maximize button

DIALOG_MAX_HOVER_SELECTED_ICON - will be displayed when the mouse pointer is over the maximize button and the mouse button is pressed

DIALOG_MAX_INACTIVE_ICON - will be displayed if a dialog is disabled

DIALOG_RESTORE_ICON - standard restore icon of a dialog

DIALOG_RESTORE_HOVER_ICON - will be displayed when the mouse pointer is over the restore button

DIALOG_RESTORE_HOVER_SELECTED_ICON - will be displayed when the mouse pointer is over the restore button and the mouse button is pressed

DIALOG_RESTORE_INACTIVE_ICON - will be displayed if a dialog is disabled

Embedded Title Bar

Not only the shell of the Riena application or a dialog have a title bar also other parts of the Riena have a title bar. These can be a module in the navigation or the view of the active sub-module. The name of this title bar is Embedded Titlebar.

The text of the title bar has the foreground color (activated: EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_ACTIVE_FOREGROUND, deactivated: EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_PASSIVE_FOREGROUND). The L&F key EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_ACTIVE_BORDER_COLOR defines the color of the border.

The background of the Embbeded Titlebar is a gradient with start and end color. (EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_ACTIVE_BACKGROUND_START_COLOR and EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_ACTIVE_BACKGROUND_END_COLOR)

States

A module can have other states. The following pictures shows the title bar of the same module with different states: active, passive, disabled, active and mouse over, passive and mouse over:

The passive title has other start and end colors and an other border color: EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_PASSIVE_BACKGROUND_START_COLOR, EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_PASSIVE_BACKGROUND_END_COLOR, EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_PASSIVE_BORDER_COLOR

The disabeld title bar is similar to the passive. Only the foreground and the border color can be different: EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_DISABLED_FOREGROUND, EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_DISABLED_BORDER_COLOR

When the mouse if over the title bar of a module then the a hover border appears. The top and the bottom of the border has tow different colors: EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_HOVER_BORDER_TOP_COLOR, EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_HOVER_BORDER_BOTTOM_COLOR. The left and right side of the hover border is another gradient with a start and end color: EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_HOVER_BORDER_START_COLOR, EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_HOVER_BORDER_END_COLOR

Close Icon

The Riena Look&Feel also defines the close icon of the module title bar:

The constants are:

EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_CLOSE_ICON - standard close icon

EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_CLOSE_HOVER_ICON - will be displayed when the mouse pointer is over the close button

EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_CLOSE_HOVER_SELECTED_ICON - will be displayed when the mouse pointer is over the close button and the mouse button is pressed

EMBEDDED_TITLEBAR_CLOSE_INACTIVE_ICON - will be displayed if a module is disabled

Look&Feel and View

Inside working area of the active sub-module almost standard SWT widget are used. The properties of these widgets can also changed by the Riena Look&Feel.

Unfortunately not all changes of these properties have an effect on the apperance of the widget. So on Windows you can the font of every widget, but you can only change the foreground color of some widget: The foreground color of Text can be changed but not the foreground color of a Button.

In the Thema of the Look&Feel you can define for every kind of Widget, the default property values: